Today or more correctly, yesterday, the single greatest event in history took place --- the invasion of Normandy on June 6th 1944 --- never before in recorded history was such a massive invasion attempted by any country, and out of that attack the death nail was struck at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Come with me back to that fateful day and hear how Americans were told about it through the eyes and ears of the reporters that covered it, and as you do, remember the thousands of soldiers that gave their lives to free a war torn Europe.
CBS
http://archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day
NBC
http://archive.org/details/NBCCompleteBroadcastDDay
The movie "The Longest Day" was an interesting film of how that day went down.
There was also "Saving Private Ryan". A number of movies were made about D-Day, and the Military Channel has also made programs dealing with D-Day. Most military experts agree that we could never again pull off such an invasion, but them with all our ultra modern military equipment an invasion of that scale would not be necessary (hopefully). Three members of my family were in that invasion. My Stepfather was in an armored division that landed at Utah Beach; his brother was a paratrooper that landed behind enemy lines, and my cousin was a Liberator pilot that was in the bombing raids.
tt, did they all come back alive?
Fortunately they did, although my Uncle still had a bullet in him that the medics couldn't remove.
Thanks for posting that, TT. My local rag, the Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel, couldn't be bothered; not one word about the invasion. I emailed & asked the editor why but he hasn't replied about it.... Thanks for remembering them.
Tom
You're entirely welcome Tom it was both my pleasure and honor to do so. I was only 5 years old that day, yet even the children back then understood the significance of that event. Our families sat down with us and explained what was happening then we all went to church to pray for our troops.
When the pastor of our church heard about it, he personally went to the church and started ringing the church bell, and regardless of which church we belonged to, people started coming in to pray.